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How AI is killing climate protection
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the public. The application is experiencing an explosive expansion. However, the consequences are not being discussed. The power consumption of data centers is also experiencing an explosive expansion and of nightmarish proportions.
Example: Each request to ChatGPT consumes nine watt hours. ChatGPT has 200 million requests a day - and that number is growing rapidly.
AI is a power guzzler. When you enter an AI data center in Silicon Valley, you are hit by an enormous heat wave. The roaring of the cooling systems for the huge computer blocks is deafening. The chips are cooking the AI there.
AI and cryptocurrencies already consume an additional power output equivalent to the whole of Spain. This trend is completely undermining climate protection. So much additional renewable energy can no longer be generated. At the AI summit in Paris, the need for 14 nuclear power plants was calculated. France is relying on nuclear power and will therefore become the AI center in Europe. Google wants to reactivate the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the USA for its own use only.
Other (still?) non-nuclear states will have to rely on the least harmful fossil fuel if necessary: Natural gas. The price on the gas exchanges is already likely to rise.
Goodbye energy transition.
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